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The senior laws are looking wild jii9t now - quizzes quiz thcm. Prof. J. G. PattenglU will probably take his "bouillon " straight hereafter. The lit. seniora have had to give up their pet project of graduating iu "cap and gown." President Angelí and Praf. C. L. Ford will address the University Teinperance Associiition uext Friday eveninjj at 8 o'clock, in the ehapel. Cornelius Bennett, judge of probate for Isabellu county, attended school in Aun Albor in 1856. and graduated in the Iaw departinent in 1865. Tlie senior class eleoted last Saturday Mary 15. Pntaam, of Ypsilanti, poet; D. H. Browne, of Ann Arbor, seer; and E. E. Powell, of lonia, historian. Tlie terms of Rev. Qeo. Duffleld, D.D., and of Hon. Jacob J. Van Riper, as Regents of the university, expire Jan. lst, 1886, and their succesgore will be elected at tlie coming spring election. The committee on the university in the house of representatives consists of J. Q. Parkhurst, Van Buren; Seth P. North, Houghton; M. D. Campbell, Branch; M. H. Ford, Kent; and L. H. Collins, Wayne. The yisitors to New Orlenns had a very pleasant trip, but think tlie opening of the Exposltiou premature. The managers have evidently endeavored to accotnplish more than their iiiouey or caliber would warrant. F . L. Bird, lit. '77, and well known in Ann Arbor, has just had the good fortune to come out ahead in a snit in which he (Tal Uefemlant and tlie city of Atchion, Kas., complainant, growing out of his refusal to pay an MNMOeDl made liy the city authorities for the purpose of building an aqueduct. Mr. Bird claimed the action illegal, and stnoil out. He was his own lawyer, and the result speaks well for his ability and grit. We regret to cbrpnlcle the faet that H. A. Kimhall, of tbe senior Iaw class, was taken to his home at Dover, N. II., one day last week, on account of undoubted mental aberratlon. He is a gradúate of Dartmoutli college, and tlie perverted vomlitimi of his mind is without doubt the result of over-study. He labors ntider the hallucination that he lias found tbe solution of Hamlet'i graat problem of "to be or not tobe." Hillsdale's to the front, in one respect at least. Work has already begun there upon a gymnasium. Where, oh! where? But why ask the question ? You are all familiar with the answer. Only yesterday we saw a couple of studeuts, who, being weary of delayed hopes, etc, went manfully at work on a little gyinnasiuni of their own. One had a inagnificent buck-saw and saw-buck, the other an axe; and as fasl as one would jrymnast the sticks in two, the other would gracefully cleave them in twam - or more - and someiRault them into the wood receptacle at the real of the rcsldence. Our readers may not be aware of the fact that one of our resident ladies has just been highly honored. About six weeks ago Mrs. Loqím Reed Stowell was eleeted a member of the Koval Microscopical Society, of London, England. Mrs. Stowell in Mie third lady everelected to Fellowship by tliis conservative society, tlie two woraen thus previously honored being residents of London. It was a good deal for this BrltUb loclety, now over 200 years old, to allow any woman to enter their ranks; and it lm only hontrl tself in obootlngM the lirst woman from America no leu a wcll-known scientist Ihan Mrs. Stowell. It isa gratification to know that some of our American women, even, can aequire more than a national reptitatlon for soientlflc work. Both the Dr. and Mrs. Stowell now appead to their ñames mi F. M. R. S.